Monthly Archives: نومبر 29, 2010

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are rising again after the drop caused by the recession, and may reach record levels this year, but the annual UN summit to combat climate change that starts in the Mexican resort city of Cancún on November 29 is not expected to even start tackling the major causes.

An ICIMOD initiative, the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative aims to develop a framework for cooperation and common understanding on conservation issues in the region between China, India and Nepal.

‘Climate change and vulnerability in the eastern Himalayas’ is a summary of findings from research into the impacts and vulnerability of this region to climate change, supported by the McArthur foundation and published in 2010.

Media coverage of the UN’s Copenhagen summit on climate change in 2009 "under-reported” the climate science, claims a new study published by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ).

Human activity is accelerating the desertification of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Now a major source of water for Asia, the Qinghai-Tibet plateau may well become one of the world’s major sources of sand in the future, Shanghai Morning Post’s Ge Zhihao reports.